College of Engineering and Computer Science

Florida Atlantic University

College of Engineering and Computer

Science

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FAU Board of Trustees Meeting January 26, 2012

New Trend:

The Entrepreneurial University

„ Industry trends: research funding drastically

reduced – chances for universities

„ Universities can only effectively become

incubators of entrepreneurship and innovation if they themselves practice entrepreneurship

„ This “re-conceptualization” involves

non-traditional, often radical university arrangements

Our New Engineering Building

„ Living lab with sensor

systems „ Lecture hall „ 6 instructional engineering and computer labs „ 9 research labs „ Cloud computing „ Innovation lab

We Follow

Technology Trends

„ Mobile Systems and

Applications

„ Bioinformatics and

Biotechnology

„ Data and Web Mining „ And more …..

Our Cloud Computers_ComputersOur Cloud

Our Apple Lab

They are not in cloud, they are on the 1st _floor

New Programs & New Courses

Media, Technology, and Entertainment (2011) „ _{Master Program in} Bioengineering (2007) „ iPhone Programming „ _{Android Programming} „ Blackberry Programming „ Game Programming „ Computer Animation „ Graphics Programming „ Cloud Computing

Our Research and

Innovation Strategy

„ At College level: Innovation Leadership

Program

„ NSF Industry/University Cooperative

Research Center (I/UCRC) for Advanced Knowledge Enablement

„ Collaboration with R&D Park at FAU

„ Industry Advisory Boards (College and

Departments)

„ Creating joint Industry-University

Model of the I/UCRC

„ Industry partners pay the memberships ($5K to $50K++ per year) „ NSF sponsors the Center ($60K to $200K per university per year) „ Industry Advisory Board selects the research projects

„ Industry members select the products for commercialization – no

royalties

„ Expectations: $750K from NSF + $7.5M from Industry (5 years) „ Similar to MIT Media Lab model

Universities (FIU + FAU) Industry partner 1 Industry partner 3 Industry

partner 2 _{partner 4}Industry

Information, Communication, and

Computing, 15

Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC)

University of Florida, University of Arizona, Rutgers University

Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)

West Virginia University, University of Arizona

Center for Information Protection (CIP)

Iowa State University, University of California - Davis - Planned

Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement

Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University Center for Embedded Systems- Planned

Arizona State University, University of California - Irvine, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Southern Methodist University, University of North Texas, University of Texas - Dallas, State University of New York - Stony Brook, University of Texas - San Antonio

Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Ohio State University

Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research

University of Maryland - Baltimore County, Georgia Tech, University of California - San Diego

I/UCRC for Intelligent Storage- Planned

University of Minnesota, University of California Santa Cruz

High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)

University of Florida, The George Washington University, Virginia Tech University, Brigham Young University

Center for Software for Ultra Large Systems- Planned

University of Virginia, Michigan State University, Vanderbilt University, University of South Dakota

Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT)

Polytechnic University, University of Virginia, Auburn University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Advanced Space Technologies Research and Engineering Center (ASTREC)

NSF-Sponsored I/UCRC Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement

FIU + FAU (Total 25 industry members)

„ FAU Industry Members: { LexisNexis ($80K + $900 equipment) { ProntoProgress ($60K) { Wigime, Inc. ($50K) { Relli Technologies ($100K) { SmartVCR, LLC ($50K) { ILS Technology ($30K) { Avocent/Emerson Corp. ($38K) { Jansyl Technologies ($5K) { Tecore Networks ($200K + $960K equipment) { Aware Technology ($20K) { Adventure Automation ($34K) { LastBestChance, LLC ($1M over 5 years)

„ New, potential members { IBM ($46K)

{ MobileHelp (Scott Adams) ($46K)

{ SorenTech ($200K)

„ FAU: 15 active research

projects funded with $1M+ from industry members and $306K from NSF

Success Story:

Distributed Cloud Computing Study to Provide 3D Visualization Services for Climate Data on Demand „ NSF- sponsored project,

jointly with FIU and University of Maryland

„ New visualization

techniques to provide 3-D temperature profiles

New Project: Smart Building Design

„ NSF Center with industry partners ILS Technology and Aware

Technology

„ Using sensors and available measurements develop

algorithms for power optimization and building management

Joint University/Industry Labs

„ “Incubator as part of the Department” „ Examples - Motorola (2002-2010):

Developing tools and techniques for mobile applications

„ _{Tecore Networks (Jay Salkini) :}

Research in mobile and wireless systems

„ _{Pronto Progress (Tim Proksh):}

Developing Web services for customers

„ _{LastBestChance,LLC (Mike Levine):}

$1M for 5 years to work on variety of innovative mobile products.

„ New MOU with Telecommunication

Industry Courses

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Courses Taught by Industry

{ Data Intensive Computing (LexisNexis) { Enterprise Software Development (Citrix)

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Industry Training Courses

{ Android and iPhone/iPad Programming

courses for LexisNexis and Siemens

{ Programming courses (C++, Java) for

Interaction With

Local Community

„ College’s Engineering Scholars Program (ESP)

{ Has been in place for 14 years

{ 150 high school students from Palm Beach and

Broward Counties take a dual enrollment engineering courses

„ College offers STEM-related courses for middle

school students during Summer

„ College faculty have recently developed STEM

curriculum for Broward County school system

„ Provided one-day curriculum training to 50+ Math and

Science school teachers and 6 school principals on January 6, 2012

Success Stories

SNMREC

„ Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy

Center (SNMREC) has more than 40 active partnership agreements

„ SNMREC actively participates in Palm Beach

Business Development Board

„ SNMREC provides outreach activities to local,

regional, national communities

„ SNMREC provides assistance in educational

Success Stories

„ EdgeTech (a local company) has commercialized 

technology developed in the College and developed 

sonar systems

„ Hundreds of such systems have been sold „ STTR for high bit‐rate acoustic modems

„ EdgeTech’s business and size has grown in Florida „ EdgeTech hires graduates from our College

Success Stories

Our Graduates

Ralph de la Vega CEO of AT&T Mobility

Students at FAU have created a number of iPhone and Android applications, approved by Apple and

Google Steve Swanson, NASA Astronaut Jaime Borras Ex-CTO of Motorola

Success Stories

Signing MOU with Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), 2011

Our Industry Guests

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Dr. Zee Aganovic, CEO of Hiconversion

Armando Escalante, CTO of LexisNexis

Michael Levine, Entrepreneuer and CEO

of LastBestChance, LLC

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Fred Yentz, CEO of ILS Technology